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onanist
[ oh-nuh-nist ]
noun
- someone who practices coitus interruptus or masturbation:
A confirmed onanist, or chronic masturbator, she saw no need for a relationship with someone other than herself.
- someone who commits acts that are thought to be sexually deviant:
The city is famous for gamblers, prostitutes, alcoholics, fetishists, onanists, and pornographers.
- someone whose behavior exhibits self-serving intellectual or emotional gratification:
They seem to be a clique of onanists with nothing better to do than spend their lives at a computer terminal, insulting other people.
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- o·nan·is·tic adjective
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Origin of onanist1
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